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Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours
de Vreyer, Philippe; Spielvogel, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707128
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Public investment and regional growth and convergence: Evidence from Greece
Psycharis, Yannis; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084166
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Hansa vs Habsburg: Debt, Deficits and the Entry of Accession Countries into the Euro
Hughes Hallett, Andrew; Lewis, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Price and output level convergence between new member states and the existing EU necessarily implies inflation and … nominal criteria are suspended, the policy instruments required to achieve euro convergence are in the hands of the individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124072
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884466
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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555773
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Entrepreneurship,Growth, Regional Growth Regimes
Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143965
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Unconditional Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359488
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Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J; Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Ralf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123710
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Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136721
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In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation and Economic Performance
Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country’s own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little ‘policy experimentation’. Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...
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